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The article doesn't claim that distrust is recent. It claims the opposite. It claims that people historically have seen strongmen as the "legitimate" authority
by exo-pla-net 5y ago
The article doesn't claim that distrust is recent. It claims the opposite.
It claims that people historically have seen strongmen as the "legitimate" authority. As a corollary, authority from anything other than strongmen was illegitimate.
We've managed to get many people to believe in systems and organizations instead of strongmen. But for various reasons, we've recently regressed.
- nicolas_t 5y agoYes but they claim that the rise of bureaucracy and legitimate authority corresponds to the rise of the modern state, so I might be mistaken but it seemed to me that the intent was to contrast to earlier times than the 20th century?